He studied classical guitar and specializes in Jazz and improvise music. He is in possession of a musical degree of Jazz in guitar at the Musical Conservatoty of Lille then a master’s degree in musical composition and a master of esthetic and practise of Arts at the University of Lille 3.
He puts a lot of efforts into doing performance, composition and experimentation in solo or through ensembles as electric as numerous : La Pieuvre, le Grand orchestre de Muzzix, Circum Grand Orchestra, One DPI, Feldspath, l’OGR, TOC, TOCC Beat Club, Garbowski/Cruz Quartet, Cruz/Zoubek/Witkowski trio, Gaw !...
In 2010 he takes part to the Jazzplayeurope (six musicians from six different countries and to an European tour including seven concerts in different european town.
He composes and creates in 2014 the documentary-concert Trading Litany, about the financial world. Since 2015, he develops a device of augmented guitar in association with Loïc Reboursière and Olivier Lautem. He involves this device in the under way multimedia project Puzzle.

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Muzzix is a collective composed of 30 musicians and based in Lille (northern France). It supports each year many artistic projects going from contemporary jazz to experimental and improvised musics, performed in many various ways, from solo to full orchestra, from concerts to installations or performances.more